Graduate Student Paper Award Results

In 2024, The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for the first time has launched a Research award for graduate students to honor and reward their accomplishments in the area of Arts and Social Sciences. Graduate students in all programs were invited to submit their papers and/or their artwork to be considered for this recognition. The purpose of the award is to reward cutting-edge research, artwork and publications by graduate students during their studies and encourage them in their academic careers. In this inaugural year, ten individual applications for the Graduate Student Paper/Artwork award were received for evaluation. All submissions were highly competitive, demonstrating the accomplishments and the potential of our students. The jury had a hard time in deciding the final winner.

It is with great pleasure that we would like to announce that in 2025, the FASS Research Award is granted to Okan Akarsu, PhD student in Economics, for his published paper titled "Inflation Expectations and Firms’ Decisions in High Inflation: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial".

In addition, the jury also wanted to recognize Samer Sharani whose paper titled “Seeking Ontological Security Through Thick Narratives: Syrian Civil War, Ontological Insecurity, and Narratives” received "Honorable Mention"